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YouTube TV and Sling TV are the two best options for cord-cutters who want live TV. Here's how they stack up.

David Axelrod was a big booster of Obamacare, which has done little to prevent Big Pharma from price-gouging

Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, April 5th

The bipartisan bill could solve some savings gaps facing workers at a time when many Americans are unprepared for retirement.

People plan to trim spending on food, driving and vacations to keep up with inflation, according to CNBC + Acorns Invest in You survey.

Americans are more financially stressed than a year ago, with 48% thinking about higher prices all the time, a CNBC + Acorns Invest in You survey found.

Jeff Bezos has topped Forbes’ billionaires list for the past four years. This year, there’s a new number one.

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The world’s ten richest sports owners have a combined net worth of $353 billion, holding steady from a year ago despite rampant inflation and a volatile market.

Truth Social has already been downloaded, glitches and all, more than a million times—and has boosted Trump’s net worth by an estimated $430 million.

1. New Billionaires 2022: Rihanna, Peter Jackson And 234 Others Join The Ranks This Year  Forbes
2. 33 billionaires in US healthcare  Becker's Hospital Review
3. Total wealth of world’s billionaires has fallen to $12.7tn, says Forbes  The Guardian
4. Oligarchs and Decacorns: Inside The World's Billionaires List 2022 | Forbes  Forbes
5. This Is the Richest Country in the World  msnNOW
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She’s not a household name, but the company she helps oversee as a board member has global recognition.

Nearly half of these ocean ecosystems have been wiped out since 1950. One man is on a mission to reverse that—by speed-growing coral in hyperefficient nurseries.

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As biology gets better, biosecurity gets harder. Here’s what the world can do to prepare.

Election offices are in a funding crisis. In hundreds of counties and cities across the United States, outdated voting machines need to be replaced. Personnel costs have gone up, as threats to election workers have been on the uptick. Even the cost of paper has skyrocketed—at a time when polling offices are using more of it than ever, thanks to the rise in mail-in voting. Independent groups have estimated that as much as $53 billion will be needed in the next decade to ensure elections can be conducted securely and fairly. Читать дальше...

Late last month, Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and narrow tunnel pioneer, conducted a poll on Twitter. “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy,” Musk tweeted to his 80 million followers. “Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” An hour later, he posted a cryptic follow-up: “The consequences of this poll will be important. Please vote carefully.” After 70 percent of respondents voted “no,” Musk tweeted again. ​​“Given that Twitter serves as the de facto public town square... Читать дальше...

Eula May McNair, age 82, sits on her couch, sifting through yellowed newspaper clippings; Polaroid prints of her days touring Europe with The Tiffanies, a three-woman singing group; and certificates awarded to her daughters, whom she brags about with motherly ease. She picks up a photo: “Me and my husband down at the Copacabana,” Eula says, smiling. “Everybody thought I was a movie star. Ain’t that something?”

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The home-and-home series with the Colorado Avalanche concludes tonight in Pittsburgh. Will the Penguins rebound with a win? Before tonight’s big game, check out some new Pens Points.

<p>LANDOVER, MD – CIRCA 1984: Head coach Gene Shue of the Washington Bullets with his player Ricky Sobers #14 during an NBA basketball game circa 1984 at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland. Shue coached the Washington Bullets from 1980-86. (Photo by Focus on Sport/Getty Images)</p>

Today’s web applications are nowhere near as fast and responsive as native desktop applications, but what if they could be? That’s the promise of WebAssembly.

Let’s say that your job is to monitor oil well operations across a small country. You have a device installed at every oil pumpjack, the mechanism that pumps oil out of the ground from an existing well. This device monitors local weather and pump operations. It even automates local processes on the pumpjack.

SQLite is the world's most widely-deployed database engine. It’s in your phone, it’s in your browser, and if you search your computer you’ll find its .db files there too. SQLite was inspired by Postgres. Its author Richard Hipp has called SQLite a “conceptual fork” of Postgres. There’s no shared code, but Postgres was the north star to which he aligned SQLite. The two are complementary, he said, in the following ways.

In the world of software, six months is an eternity.

Heck, look at how much has happened over the past six months since Android 12 came into the universe. Google started and then finished a hefty 0.1-style update that lays the groundwork for significant large-screen improvements to the Android experience. And it's now well into the public development phase of its next big Android version, Android 13 — which is the rapidly forming release on most folks' minds at this point.

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